Highway Feature of the Week, NH 34, Dum Dum (দমদম), India

Highway Feature of the Week, NH 34, Dum Dum (দমদম), India

23 March 2008 · No Comments

(This is one of a weekly series of posts entitled “Highway Feature of the Week”. The complete collection of Highway Features of the Week is available on a single page, or via a special RSS feed.)

Back to India this week:

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Northwest of the center city of Kolkata there is an interestingly-named neighborhood called Dum Dum, best known for the being the home to a Royal Artillery armory in the 19th Century, and more recently the site of Kolkata’s international airport.

Pictured above is a random, under-construction interchange on National Highway 34 as it passes just to the west of the airport. It’s not terribly exciting, but I just had to feature the Dum Dum neighborhood. :)

Tags: Highway Feature · Interchanges · Road Construction